I don’t envy director Neill Blomkamp right now. Hitting Hollywood hard with District 9, the helmer has had two flops since then in the form of Elysium and Chappie. Now, with his his plans for a fifth Alien film he’s got to juggle not only some high fan expectations, but a franchise that hasn’t seen a proper sequel for close to …

  When I first heard that Ridely Scott was producing a new Blade Runner sequel, I ran into a wall thinking about what he would do to it if he directed. Scott may have created this world with the classic, and was once one of the best directors on the planet, but after the abomination of Prometheus I thought “please no, spare one …

Ever since I spent nearly a decade living in England I have had a soft spot for crime thrillers, mainly because 50% of what was on the telly over there were whodunnits. So this first trailer for Child 44, from British writer Tom Rob Smith, has me intrigued, especially as it’s produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House). This …

If you watched Darren Aronofsky’s bombastic and fantastical Noah last year and found yourself frequently exclaiming in frustration that “this wasn’t what I learned in Sunday School”, then you may find Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings more palatable. But this Biblical tale is both “down the valley” and “up the mountain,” as unimaginative storytelling often mute its epic aspirations. Exodus may be technically flawless but it is almost completely …

Film geeks love fantasizing about those “what if” moments, where a particular filmmaker never made their vision of a film. Sometimes this is a good thing (Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage’s Superman Lives!, come on down!), but most times we’re left wondering about and yearning for what could have been. District 9 director and ex-local boytjie Neil Blomkamp is certainly no stranger to …

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Ridley Scott is a director who has reached the very top of the mountain when it comes to genre filmmaking. Unfortunately, the last few years has seen his directing career falling down that mountain like an Eddie Murphy stand-up comedy sketch. So with that in mind, I was quite apprehensive about Scott tackling a new sequel to his seminal sci-fi …

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